We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us!
In our third episode we kicked the show off with a story about a couple of lads in Dundee who thought it’d be funny to say on Facebook that they wanted to riot in Dundee, the judge didn’t agree. Next up was a hilarious story about IP addresses belonging to the loudest of the “censor the internet” drum beaters Sony, Fox and Universal have been caught downloading illegally on Bit Torrent.
At this point, the excuse “our IP address was spoofed, it wasn’t us” appears to be the lawyers choice of get-out-of-jail card to play……if it’s good enough for the goose, it’s good enough for the gander.
We moved from illegal to legal downloading with a story about the Swiss deciding that downloading movies and music is legal after all. We moved back to more FOSS style news with the cautious welcome of HP (no, not the sauce) open sourcing WebOS. Let’s hope these guys get it right. It could be a good move, and a badly needed alternative to Android and iOS.
A story about Linux Mint swapping the affiliate codes in Banshee was the seed for our discussion this week, as we pondered how FOSS projects get their money, what’s right and what’s wrong, whether money coming in should be going upstream or whether it’s right for the distros to use it. After all, most of us get our software through whatever distro we’re using at the time. They cost money to keep running.
There was an update to the Mint / Banshee story from when we recorded to when we released, so we’ve included that link here.
In a perfect display of why Gordon will never make a competent presenter, he shows his ability to get the ending track and band name the wrong way round.
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